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Jerzy Adamkiewicz

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Jerzy Adamkiewicz

First name:
Jerzy
Last Name:
Adamkiewicz
Date of birth:
10-06-1881
Place of birth:
Kraków
Date of death:
02-04-1958
Place od death:
Montreal
Age:
76
Profession:
diplomat
Biography:

Jerzy Adamkiewicz (1881-1958), Polish lawyer and diplomat. He studied law at the consular department in Vienna, and from 1920 served as consul-general in Leipzig, London, Jerusalem, and from 1933 to 1936 in Ottawa. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he worked for the Polish government in London. He returned to Canada in 1946 and was a professor of history and political science at St. Mary's University in Halifax for two years, then taught at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, from 1948 to 1952. The last years of his life were associated with the University of Montreal, where he worked as a professor at the Centre for Slavic Studies. He died in Montreal. He is laid to rest in the Saint-Sauveur (Quebec) cemetery.

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